A game designer has revealed his strategy for triumphing over an opponent in a game of rock, paper, scissors. New Yorker Nick Metzler, or @nickmetzler1 on TikTok, recently took to the popular social ...

Rock-Paper-Scissors works great for deciding who has to take out the garbage. But have you ever noticed what happens when, instead of playing best of three, you just let the game continue round after ...

There's a way to increase your odds of winning rock, paper, scissors — if only we had known these techniques in elementary school. Research has found there are a few simple ways to get an advantage ...

If you thought you can't be bad at rock-paper-scissors, you're dead wrong. The World Rock Paper Scissors Association makes it clear that you don't have to be anything more than an "armchair athlete" ...

This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This is an excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan’s book “Uncertainty in Games.” Unless you have lived in a Skinner box from an early ...